Tom Jones, 83, looks tired as he arrives in Brisbane ahead of Byron Bay Blues Festival gig for Australia tour after revealing he has no plans to retire soon
Tom Jones showed no signs of slowing down as he touched down in Brisbane on Saturday ahead of his performance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival.
The music legend, 83, is touring Australia after revealing last year he has no plans to retire.
Tom looked a little tired as he walked through the terminal ahead of his performance at the BluesFest, which attracts more than 100,000 music fans.
The singer cut a casual figure during the flight in a black plaid flannel shirt, jeans and a baseball cap.
Tom, who has been traveling around Australia and was in Perth earlier this week, looked like he had been making the most of the sun while sporting a tan.
Tom Jones showed no signs of slowing down as he touched down in Brisbane on Saturday ahead of his performance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival
The music legend, 83, is touring Australia after revealing last year he has no plans to retire
He will next perform at A Day On The Green in NSW on Saturday and has shows in Adelaide and Melbourne.
The Sex Bomb hitmaker will also appear on various dates in March and April, including at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.
He closes with a show in Sydney at the Aware Super Theater on April 4.
Last year, Tom insisted he has no plans to stop performing anytime soon.
The music legend admitted that while he can’t dance around the stage as often as in previous shows, he will only retire when his voice starts to fail.
In 2022, Tom revealed that he had undergone his second hip replacement surgery, after the first was done in 2017.
It came after he admitted that he had to sit during the majority of his shows and could only perform about four of his songs standing.
“The only way (I would retire) is if I couldn’t sing anymore. If something went wrong with my singing ability, I wouldn’t want to continue at full speed. “I wouldn’t want to shortchange an audience,” he said Subway.
‘When you’re old, you can’t do what you used to do. I mean, I can’t walk around like I used to, but I wouldn’t want to now. When you’re young, you’re full of p*** and vinegar and you give it plenty. Now I concentrate more on singing than anything else.
Tom looked a little tired as he walked through the terminal ahead of his performance at the BluesFest, which attracts more than 100,000 music lovers
“I can still go there and do it live. I don’t know, it’s a good question because I’ve never really thought about that… If people want to go and see that, that’s fine.’
Tom added that if he were ever unable to perform in the future, he would be open to the idea of a hologram to replace him, although he hopes that’s “nowhere close.”